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Curriculum Vitae
Philipp W. Messer
Research Associate
Department of Biology
Stanford University
371 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
phone: (+1) 650-736-2249
email: messer[at]stanford.edu
Research Experience
| since 04/2013 | Research Associate, Stanford University |
| 04/2008-03/2013 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
| 04/2005-03/2008 | PhD Student, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin |
| 11/2002-03/2005 | Teaching Assistant, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne | 01/2002-10/2002 | Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt |
| 07/2000-12/2001 | Research Assistant, Center for Applied Computer Science, University of Cologne |
Education
| 03/2008 | PhD in Computational Biology, Free University of Berlin Advisors: Prof. Martin Vingron and Dr. Peter Arndt Title: Tandem Duplications in the Human Genome Grade: Summa cum laude (with highest honors) |
| 03/2005 | Diploma in Physics (similar to MSc), University of Cologne Advisor: Prof. Michael Lassig Title: Solvable Sequence Evolution Models and Genomic Correlations |
| 08/2004-09/2004 | Summer School, Ecole de Physique Les Houches, France Multiple Aspects of DNA and RNA: From Biophysics to Bioinformatics |
| 03/2001-03/2005 | Graduate studies in Physics, University of Cologne |
| 02/2001 | Pre-diploma in Physics (similar to BSc), University of Cologne |
Fellowships and Awards
| 03/2012 | Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution: Travel award |
| 04/2008-04/2011 | Human Frontiers Science Program: Long-term Postdoctoral fellowship |
| 03/2008 | Free University Berlin: PhD thesis awarded Summa cum laude |
| 02/2007 | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara: Travel award |
| 04/2005-03/2008 | International Max-Planck Research School: PhD fellowship |
| 08/2004 | Ecole de Physique Les Houches, France: Summer school fellowship |
Selected Talks
| 03/2013 | MFPL, Vienna, Austria (invited) |
| 03/2013 | IST Austria, Vienna, Austria (invited) |
| 07/2012 | Vetmeduni, Vienna, Austria (invited) |
| 06/2012 | SMBE 2012, Dublin, Ireland |
| 05/2012 | Workshop on Selection in Population Genetics, Harvard (invited) |
| 03/2012 | Statistics and Genomics Seminar, UC Berkeley (invited) |
| 12/2011 | Bay Area Population Genomics Meeting, Stanford |
| 08/2011 | ESEB 2011, Tuebingen, Germany |
| 04/2010 | Drosophila Research Conference 2010, Washington DC |
| 01/2009 | Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany |
| 05/2007 | The Biology of Genomes 2007, Cold Spring Harbor |
| 04/2006 | RECOMB 2006, Venice, Italy |
| 08/2005 | Otto Warburg Workshop on Networks and Regulation, Berlin, Germany |
| 03/2005 | German Physical Society Meeting 2005, Berlin, Germany |